Midweek Ramblings + Recent Purchases

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Ramblings: 

• HCBN North Carolina Blogger Meet-up: I am the regional chair for my region of North Carolina for the Her Campus Blogger Network, which means that I get to plan quarterly meet-ups for other NC bloggers! We held our first meet-up of 2016 this past weekend. Myself, Cara from Caralina Style, Taylor from Lefty Living Life , Morgan from How 2 Wear It and I all enjoyed a delicious brunch at the Print Works Bistro in Greensboro, NC. It was so much fun to spend some quality time with other North Carolina bloggers (and enjoy the best French Toast that I've ever had while I was at it!). I am currently working on planning the March meet-up for the HCBN, which will be held here in Charlotte! Be sure to e-mail me if you're a blogger in the area who would like to attend. :-) (And see a few pictures from this month's meet-up at the bottom of this post!)
• Disney Bound: Finally sharing my Spring Break plans for this year: I will be heading to Orlando and the Disney Parks next month! It's been six years since I've been to Disney, and I cannot wait to go back. I will be traveling there with my dad and my best friend Caroline! We are planning to spend a couple of days in the parks, and a day or two exploring our hotel and greater Orlando. Since I haven't been to Disney that many times (and have never been to the Orlando area outside of Disney!), I would LOVE any recommendations from any of you as for things to do while we're there! Especially restaurant recommendations- my favorite thing about Disney is the food. 
• Resume fine-tuning: I had the wonderful opportunity last week to meet with someone who is the Senior VP of Communications for a Charlotte city development based non-profit that I really admire! The meeting was so beneficial to me, and she offered me many helpful tips for my resume and upcoming job search. It was wonderful for me to have someone in the working world take a look at my resume, as she offered me different feedback on it then what I've gotten from professors at school! I spent more time last week after my meeting fine-tuning my resume, and now hopefully it's good to go for the next few months. Applying for jobs is like a whole job in itself!! 

Purchases:

• It might have taken me until senior year of college to do so, but I finally made going to the gym a priority in my weekly routine last semester. This semester is a lot more academically demanding for me, so it is already getting tougher for me to find time to go to the gym, but I'm trying to still make fitness a priority by buying myself new cute athletic apparel! One thing that picked up this week was this cute (and super affordable!) new sports bra. I love the detailing on the back of it. This store is surprisingly my favorite place to buy sports bras from, most of mine are from there and I love them all! 
• I splurged this new foundation at Sephora last week! Foundation is one makeup item that I've always tried to purchase at the drugstore in the past, as high-end foundations can be pricey. But I realized that all of the drugstore foundations that I had purchased in recent months were making me break-out, due to a common ingredient that I think I react badly to! I knew that I needed to pay my local Sephora a visit, and find a higher quality foundation that didn't contain this ingredient. So far I'm pretty pleased with my new foundation. It definitely has a higher price tag then what I'm used to for makeup, but I haven't been breaking out as much this week so that's totally worth it! (And it comes in 40 shades!)
• I had enough points at Sephora to get a sample with my purchase, and I chose this night cream. Oh my word. I am OBSESSED. It smells absolutely heavenly- like the the most fancy perfume! I looked up the price for a full sized one and sadly it's a little out of this college girl's budget for right now... but maybe Christmas 2016?! 

     Hope that all of you are having a great Wednesday! Stay tuned tomorrow for the start of a new series for this month that I'm starting on the blog! And here are a couple pictures from my blogging meet-up:

The three of us all unintentionally wore the same shade of purple!

      xoxo Miss ALK